Foundation E.G. Bührle
The Foundation Collection EG Buehrle is an art museum in Zurich.
Collection
Around 180 works of extensive private art collection of the Zurich industrialist and sole shareholder of the holding company Oerlikon - Buehrle, Emil Georg Buehrle ( 1890-1956 ) were, in 1960 transferred by his heirs in an Foundation and since then in a villa next to the former home Bührle in Zollikerstrasse 172 shown in Zurich. President of the Foundation is Bührle daughter Hortense Anda- Buehrle.
The exhibits include:
- Antiques
- Medieval sculptures
- Old Master Paintings: Jacopo Tintoretto, El Greco, Rubens, van Dyck, Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Tiepolo, Canaletto Il, Goya, Ingres, Corot
- Impressionists: Manet, Degas, Renoir, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Toulouse- Lautrec, Seurat, Cézanne, van Gogh, Gauguin
- Modern: Bonnard, Vuillard, Vlaminck, Dufy, Modigliani, Utrillo, Chagall, Corinth, Matisse, Gris, Braque, Picasso
2017, the relocation of the collection Buehrle is provided in the planned extension of the Kunsthaus Zurich after in November 2012, the Zurich electorate voted on whether to around 40 percent can be built out of taxpayers' money to be financed building. The appropriate design of architect David Chipperfield from 2010 sees twelve percent of the floor space in front of the new building for the collection Buehrle.
Art theft
On 10 February 2008, four paintings were captured with a total value of 180 million Swiss francs during an armed art robbery. These are the images " The Boy in the Red Waistcoat " by Paul Cézanne, " Blossoming Chestnut Branches " by Vincent van Gogh, " Poppies near Vetheuil " by Claude Monet and " Ludovic Lepic and his Daughters " by Edgar Degas, as curator Lukas Gloor announced. The robbery is described as " probably the biggest art robbery in Europe".
On 18 February 2008, the police found two images ( those of van Gogh and Monet) undamaged back on in a car with stolen license plate in the parking lot of the Psychiatric Burghölzli and failed to return it to the museum. The other two pictures remained disappeared. Whether a ransom was paid for the pictures, is unclear. On April 11, 2012 " Boy in the Red Vest " was found again in Belgrade Cézanne. On 27 April 2012, the Zurich prosecutor's office announced that Degas ' painting " Ludovic Lepic and his Daughters " had been returned several months ago to Zurich.
Looted Art
The present in the Buehrle collection since 1941 Monet " Poppy Field at Vetheuil " is to have been because of its provenance under suspicion in the years 1940/1941 may be the subject of a questionable transaction between Buehrle and emigrated to South America Jewish merchant.
Gallery
Edgar Degas: Portrait of Count Lepic and his Daughters
Claude Monet: Poppies near Vetheuil
Georges Seurat: Woman with a Parasol
Vincent van Gogh: The Sower
Paul Cézanne: Self-Portrait with Palette
Henri de Toulouse- Lautrec: Messalina
Amedeo Modigliani: Young Woman
Paul Cézanne: The Boy in the Red Vest Oil on canvas (1894 /95)
Edouard Manet: The Swallows Oil on canvas (1873 )
Edouard Manet: The Suicide